Amazon S3 credentials - how to update the key and code without editing every workflow

Question

We are creating workflows that will be published to a gallery but our corporate policy prevents the creation of a service account.  The key and code will need to be regenerated every 90 days.  As more and more workflows are created, we will need to update each one.

My thought is:  is there a way to create a macro that will go grab the access and secret keys from a central location maintained by our team and populate them so that workflows can run regardless of an update?

I also saw a similar posting about turning the workflows into analytic apps and credentials would be entered at the time they run but no screenshots were presented.

Has anyone successfully dealt with this?  (see screenshot for fields I'd like populated)

Thank you so much!

Heather

Mahadeva · Answer

Hi @ashley_harris I have the similar requirement to dynamically fetch the keys that would rotate from a AWS Secret Manager instead of storing the keys in a flat file and then read for automation purpose.

Would like to know if you were able to get any solution for this. Thanks in advance.

ashley_harris · Answer

Hi all,

I am trying to do a similar thing with a workflow that needs AWS key rotation every 80 days. It is preferable not to have the keys saved in plaintext in a csv file somewhere, so I was wondering if there was any way that Alteryx could communicate directly with AWS to remove this requirement?

Thanks in advance

CarynWeiss · Answer

Thank you Seth for this information! It helped immensely!